Author Kim Thuy poses for a photograph at her home in Longueuil, Que., Thursday February 02, 2012.(Graham Hughes For The Globe and Mail)

Author Cary Fagan poses for a portrait at his home in Toronto.(Deborah Baic/The Globe and Mail)

Toronto author Lauren B. Davis.(Helen Tansey)

Author Will Ferguson in a Calgary coffee shop.(Larry MacDougal For The Globe and Mail)

Author Annabel Lyon seen here at her home in New Westminster, British Columbia, Tuesday, January 25, 2011. In 2009, her first novel, The Golden Mean, was the only one nominated that year for all three of Canada's major fiction prizes.(Rafal Gerszak For The Globe and Mail)

Robert Hough, author of novel Dr. Brinkley's Tower, is photographed in his Toronto home on February 20, 2012.(JENNIFER ROBERTS For The Globe and Mail)

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